Dr. Linda Hutcheon
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Toronto
Election Year
1990
Academy
Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Discipline
Languages / Philology
Department
Department of English and Centre for Comparative Literature
Keywords
Postmodernism, theory, literary history, interdisciplinary, opera
Linda Hutcheon is pre-eminent among theorists of postmodernism as an international phenomenon and among those studying postmodernism in the Canadian arts. Her work in this field has been impressively wide-ranging and thorough in its scholarship and original and insightful in its conclusions. Considering postmodernist manifestations in literature, the visual arts, and architecture, she has made a major contribution to cultural studies, literary studies, and Canadian studies.